SUMMARY VERSION INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 112, 28 February 2000 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 13 March 2000 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 112, 28 February 2000 FRONT PAGE NORTHERN IRELAND - THE REAL TEXT & REAL ARMS BEHIND CRISIS p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES HACKERS TARGET E-BUSINESS AS CYBER WAR ERA BEGINS p.2 LOSE YOUR CODE KEYS & GO STRAIGHT TO PRISON p.3 RECENT PENTAGON & HACKER INTERNET ANTICS p.4 WEB - Military Education and Research Library Network. p.5 VIDEO - NIJ Equipment Selection and Application Guide. p.6 BOOKS - Recent Releases. p.7 PEOPLE U.S.A./ISRAEL - JONATHAN J. POLLARD p.8 USA - Lewis D. Schiliro. p.9 USA/CUBA - Philip Agee. p.10 FRANCE - Andre Ranson. p.11 SWITZERLAND/BRAZIL - Policeman "X". p.12 HUNGARY - Ervin Demeter. p.13 CROATIA - Ozren Zunec. p.14 RUSSIA - VLADIMIR PUTIN p.15 COLOMBIA - Osvaldo Rico Delgado. p.16 PANAMA - Boris Foguel. p.17 SYRIA - Ali Duba. p.18 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 15 APRIL 2000 p.19 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - DEUTCH-CIA CASE TURNS INTO PARTISAN MINEFIELD p.20 - CIA FIRES & GETS IN TROUBLE p.21 - FBI "CLEANS UP" AT THE INS p.22 - LOS ANGELES POLICE OUT TO BREAK RECORDS p.23 - Pentagon Gets a Security Investigation. p.24 - SEC Gets Cyber Cops. p.25 GREAT BRITAIN - NSA JUNIOR PARTNER TOWS THE LINE p.26 - MI6 PLOT AGAINST COLONEL QADHAFI p.27 - Costly Intelligence Headquarters. p.28 NORTHERN IRELAND - Decommissioning Arms Knowledge. p.29 FRANCE - INTELLIGENCE-PRESS MOBILIZE AGAINST THE NSA p.30 GERMANY - Shades of the Stasi on the Internet. p.31 - CDU, BND, ELF & DGSE All Mixed Up Together. p.32 NETHERLANDS - BVD Extends Its Security Clearance Net. p.33 ITALY - Neo-Fascists To Drawn CIA Into Terror Trials. p.34 RUSSIA - BUSY FORTNIGHT FOR FSB & PUTIN p.35 POLAND - Disagreement on Cold-War Spy Amnesty. p.36 CZECH REPUBLIC - Spy Exchange with Russia. p.37 HUNGARY - FBI "Academy" Isn't Enough Against Crime. p.38 SERBIA - Murder Inc. Is Business As Usual. p.39 LITHUANIA - KGB Confessions Without Files. p.40 COLOMBIA - MORE COKE, MORE US ANTI-DRUG MONEY p.41 ARGENTINA - "DIRTY WAR" SPIES LOSE THEIR JOBS p.42 VENEZUELA - DISIP Chief Out. p.43 BRAZIL - The Defense Minister, Drugs and Angolan Mercenaries. p.44 CHILE - CIA Implicated in US Deaths Under Pinochet. p.45 ANGOLA - Going After UNITA's Diamonds. p.46 SOUTH AFRICA - Leaks and Disappearances. p.47 SOMALIA - CIA Gives CARE A Bad Name. p.48 TURKEY - Hezbollah "Roll-Up" Continues. p.49 ISRAEL - Trouble in Intelligence. p.50 JORDAN - Mukhabarat Replaces Mossad in Washington. p.51 PAKISTAN - ISI COMES OUT OF THE SHADOWS p.52 CHINA - HIGH-TECH MILITARY BOGGED DOWN IN REALITY p.53 - Winning the Spy & Cyber War Fight. p.54 THAILAND - NIA Chief Get Raped on the Knuckles. p.55 NORTH KOREA - Supplying Japan's "Bad Habit". p.56 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 112, 28 February 2000, p. 1 NORTHERN IRELAND THE REAL TEXT & REAL ARMS BEHIND CRISIS The IRA's decision to withdraw its interlocutor from General John de Chastelain's Independent International Commission on Decomissioning (IICD), following the suspension of the two- month old Northern Ireland Assembly and related institutions, was regarded as "logical and inevitable", according to "Intelligence" sources in Dublin. However, it was emphasized by our political and security contacts that the withdrawal should not be regarded as a "significant setback". According to them, the IRA had not appointed a representative to the IICD until agreement had been reached, last November, to establish the inclusive Executive, which included two Sinn Fein ministers, and there was no immediate concern that the IRA was considering returning to a military campaign. ...(cut)... In order to allow our subscribers to judge the legitimacy of the offer from the IRA for themselves, the full text of the second report by the IICD, addressed to Mr. Mandelson and the Irish Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Mr. O'Donoghue, follows. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 112, 28 February 2000, p. 6 VIDEO - NIJ Equipment Selection and Application Guide. The US National Institute of Justice (NIJ) recently released its "Video Surveillance Equipment Selection and Application Guide (NIJ Guide 201-99). Law enforcement and corrections personnel often find selecting and using video surveillance systems a challenge, given the number of choices, sales pressures and budget constraints. This publication is designed to assist law enforcement and procurement officials in choosing video equipment that will satisfy their needs. Topics include video cameras, self-contained camcorders, video recorders/players, video display systems and special purpose video equipment. Appendices offer detailed experimental methods and results that are summarized in the text. Available at www.ncjrs.org/resdocs.htm#179545. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 112, 28 February 2000, p. 7 BOOKS - Recent Releases. "Encyclopedia of Cryptology", by David E. Newton (1998, ABC CLIO, Oxford, isbn 1 85109 323 0, bibliography, index, 330 pp.), has over 550 entries, including one on the fascinating Diffie-Hellman key exchange (two parties can exchange code keys in front of observers who will not be able to guess the keys being exchanged). A good resource that explains complex problems in non-technical terms. "Defending the Realm - MI5 and The Shayler Affair", by Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding (1999, Andre Deutsch, London, isbn 0 233 99667 2, notes, bibliography, index, 310 pp.), is essential reading concern David Shayler and includes his submission to the Cabinet Office. One wonders why the book hasn't been censored if Shayler has been. The authors should be censored if Shayler gave them the information in the book. If Shayler did not, then they got secret government information -- that could be censored -- and do not say how it was obtained. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 112, 28 February 2000, p. 21 USA CIA FIRES & GETS IN TROUBLE The CIA fired staff attorney, Adam J. Ciralsky, and revoked his top-secret security clearance in 1998 after he failed two polygraph examinations and exhibited a "lack of candor" about relationships with associates who may have been tied to Israeli intelligence (ready, Mossad), according to a recently published CIA memorandum. Ciralsky, 28, of Milwaukee, joined the spy agency in December 1996 as a contract employee in the Office of General Counsel. The CIA memorandum on Ciralsky was made available by sources familiar with the case in anticipation of Ciralsky's scheduled appearance on a CBS program following months of confrontation with the CIA. This gesture "took the wind of his sails" since Ciralsky's lawyers have alleged that he was singled out for investigation and accused of dual loyalty to Israel because he is an observant Jew. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 112, 28 February 2000, p. 26 GREAT BRITAIN NSA JUNIOR PARTNER TOWS THE LINE The British government refuses to reveal the legal basis for its decision to allow the US government to build a $12 billion Space-Based Infra-Red Satellite (SBIRS) System in Britain. This breach of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty has led to a serious "conflict of interest" row between Cabinet ministers and senior Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials. The latter believe the secret agreement with Washington will undermine British efforts to play a key role in the debate on new European defense capabilities and among Britain's NATO allies which are convinced that any amendments to the ABM treaty to accommodate the SBIRS system will lead to a "disruption of the strategic equilibrium and a new nuclear arms race." ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 112, 28 February 2000, p. 27 GREAT BRITAIN MI6 PLOT AGAINST COLONEL QADHAFI Less than two years after the British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, publicly denied claims made by former MI5 spy, David Shayler, that the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) was involved in a plot to kill Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Qadhafi, in February 1996, a top secret MI6 CX report, posted on the Internet in mid-February, contradicted Mr. Cook's denials, gave details where and when the assassination attempt was due to take place, and confirmed that a British agent was one of the key conspirators. The four-page report, marked "UK Secret/Delicate Source/UK Eyes Alpha" and coded CX95/53452, is titled "Libya - Plans To Overthrow Qadhafi In Early 1996 Are Well Advanced". ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 112, 28 February 2000, p. 30 FRANCE INTELLIGENCE-PRESS MOBILIZE AGAINST THE NSA There has very likely been a recently major strategic shift in European intelligence involving worldwide electromagnetic eavesdropping to justify the mobilization of French intelligence media assets and the publishing of some rather transparent disinformation concerning the US National Security Agency (NSA), its top secret Anglo-Saxon UKUSA interception and intelligence exchange network and its Echelon dictionary system (see "How Echelon Works in the Framework of NSA Activity", INT, n. 107 3; "Worldwide - NSA Can't Keep Out of the Headlines", INT, n. 108 1; "More NSA Technology Information", INT, n. 108 3). On 21 November 1999, "Le Monde" published a front-page article on the NSA by the daily's not too credible "intelligence specialist", Jacques Isnard, who is well known to "Intelligence" readers (INT, n. 83 20, n. 86 23, n. 89 15, n. 90 14 & n. 103 16). Isnard tells how Prof. Christopher Simpson, at the American University, "got the NSA mad" by revealing Echelon key words such as cocaine, AK-47 and Stinger. Isnard wrote the article as if he had contacted Prof. Simpson and does not provide any other source for his information concerning the NSA and Echelon. ...(cut)... The same can be said of a 17 February article by Indigo Publications in Paris, published in the journal, "Le Monde du Renseignement" (Intelligence Newsletter), which we at the ADI founded in 1984 (and not 1980 as Indigo pretends) and brought to Indigo in late 1988 before being kicked out in late 1994 and founding our current journal, "Intelligence". Without an "outside" opinion or advice from an independent specialist, Indigo described in detail the contents of a supposedly confidential report by the intelligence arm of the French Defense Ministry, the Strategic Affairs Delegation (DAS), claiming that there are numerous and intimate ties between Microsoft and the NSA. ...(cut)... A slight detail Cukier missed. The second French optical spy satellite, Helios-1B, launched on 3 December, had a "piggy- back" partner: a 50 kg. Clementine electronic spy satellite produced entirely by France. Similar Cerise satellites are also planned. In short, "Frenchelon" is a reality and it badly needs partners, particularly financial partners. It should be noted that Switzerland's recent entry into the world electronic espionage market (INT, n. 93 13 & n. 94. 18) was accompanied by rumors that the Swiss would use their "intelligence take" to pay their ante into the US Echelon system. This current French intelligence "media op" may be directly associated with lining up other European intelligence services behind the Frenchelon banner instead of the US Echelon banner. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 112, 28 February 2000, p. 34 ITALY - Neo-Fascists To Drawn CIA Into Terror Trials. For several years, Italian judges have been investigating possible links between Neo-Fascist bombings and CIA covert actions in the country. Now, it's the Neo-Fascists who want to drag the CIA into these affairs. Attorneys representing four Neo- Fascists accused of planting a bomb in a bank in Milan in December 1969 want to call all living former CIA directors as witnesses to demonstrate that the agency knew of the campaign before it began. The defendants are members of Ordine Nuovo and Fenice. One defendant claims to have been a CIA informant at the time of the attacks, and another claims their group was manipulated by the Italian Interior Ministry. The bombing campaign was "successful" in that it kept the Italian Communist Party out of government and kept the CIA-backed Christian Democrats Party in power. But many people were killed. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 112, 28 February 2000, p. 52 PAKISTAN ISI COMES OUT OF THE SHADOWS On 14 February, the "Gulf News" reported that Pakistan's Inter- Services Intelligence (ISI) has apparently put into circulation huge quantities of counterfeit Indian R100 notes in Andhra Pradesh. At least 14-million rupees worth have been distributed from a point near the border with Maharashtra. The money is reportedly also sent to Gulf states where Indian workers are used to take the money into India. This news didn't help the ISI's new press campaign to try to avoid a snub by President Bill Clinton not visiting the country during his tour of Asia and avoid having the country put on the US terrorism list. The ISI, a military agency that oversees all Pakistani intelligence operations, has come under increasing pressure as hostilities with India escalate and its association with Islamic terrorists is questioned. India has long accused the ISI of training and equipping Islamic rebels in Kashmir. ISI officials, apparently hoping to improve the agency's image, agreed to a rare interview, published on 15 February in the "Washington Post". As machine gun fire rakes slums and bombs go off in Karachi, Gen. Ghulam Ahmed, a career army officer and ISI deputy director, claimed "we have an Islamic system here which does not permit terrorism." Reality is something else. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 112, 28 February 2000, p. 53 CHINA HIGH-TECH MILITARY BOGGED DOWN IN REALITY The ageing US "China Lobby" in Washington is going to have a heyday with a 1999 book by People's Liberation Army (PLA) colonels, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, entitled "Unrestricted Warfare" . Fear and Pentagon billions are at stake and conservative Republicans will surely find believable that the PLA can "develop a means of challenging the United States through 'asymmetry' -- not by trying to match the United States missile for missile, but by turning the strength of China's adversaries against themselves as a judo artist subdues a larger, stronger foe." According to a CIA commentary on the book, it "proposes tactics for developing countries, in particular China, to compensate for their military inferiority vis-a-vis the United States during a high-tech war." Sounds good on paper and it's popular in kung fu movies, but there's a real problem: reality. ...(cut)... ---------------------------------------------